Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1704, 2011, Pages 408-416

  Langergraber, Kevin E ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Inoue, Eiji ^b   Inoue Murayama, Miho ^b   Mitani, John C ^c   Nishida, Toshisada ^d   Pusey, Anne ^e   Reynolds, Vernon ^f   Schubert, Grit ^a   Wrangham, Richard W ^g   Wroblewski, Emily ^h   Vigilant, Linda ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Japan Monkey Center   (Japan)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Culture; Genetics; Pan troglodytes; Social learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA SET; GENETIC VARIATION; LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 79251508027     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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